Cooking with tea

[sneakyangel]

I'm curious about cooking with tea. I have a lot of loose tea that I'd like to experiment with. Mostly different types of fruit tea (lots of black tea, some green and the occasional rooibos). So has anyone got any recommendations? It can be for anything! Cakes, bread, cookies, anything. I just want to try something.

Thanks!

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Comments

[gargoylekitty]

Might not be what you have in mind but...

I use matcha in making matcha cake, smoothies, and other matcha-related goodies. For loose leaf, I tend to toss my greens in with my stir fry or whatever I'm cooking at the moment that involves a lot of veggies. Used sencha sometimes gets dried out and used as part of the topping for ochazuke. Gyokuro is gobbled down with a bit of soy sauce after the last steep. Chinese black teas are occasionally oversteeped and poured over tofurkey/seitan/tofu/fake meats to add a little something to it.

I'm pretty sure you can probably use tea to add flavor to most anything in the place of water. Experimentation is the key.

[gargoylekitty]

Oh, and, oversteeped black tea aside, I always drink the tea before using the leaves(just to be clear).

Also, I'm sure just replacing the water in most cookie/cake/baked good recipes with a fruity tea would be quite nice.

[kanaetkassad]

http://nav.livejournal.com/45347.html

[joeyclaren]

Of course, there's always teachef.com. It's run by Adagio, but I don't think the submitted recipes are limited to their teas. Some interesting sounding stuff on there. Mostly things poached in tea, cookies, and puddings.

Rooibos (in fairly small quantities) adds a really interesting texture to shortbread.

[joeyclaren]

That's Tea Chef. They only registered the full url. Teachef.com doesn't work. Silly.

[epione]

i saw these two recipes on allrecipes.com a little while ago:

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Chocolate-Earl-Grey-Cookies/Detail.aspx

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Masala-Chai-Brownies/Detail.aspx

i haven't tried them myself, but i have plans to try the brownies soon...

Cooking with tea

[dragonteas]

I use Earl Gray Tea and make a jelly from it. Since it is a little tard it is wonderful on bread. Green tea I use when I make a gravy, but I use Matcha, since it dissolves easily.